Name
Louis Alfred Walker
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
29778
Grenadier Guards
4th Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Louis Alfred Walker was born in the summer of 1883 at Kings Langley. In the local records he was known as Alfred. He was one of six children (four sons and two daughters) born to George and Sarah Walker. At the time of the 1891 Census the family lived at Church Lane, Kings Langley where George was employed as a Groom/Coachman. By 1901 George was lodging with John and Annie Freeman at 39 Luton Road, Watford, whilst Sarah had moved to the East Side of Kings Langley, and lived with Louis and his brother Archie. Both boys worked as Clerks at a Paper Mill.
On 9th September 1909 Louis married Annie Homans at Kings Langley, and in the 1911 Census the couple were recorded living at Alexandra Road, Kings Langley.
Alfred Walker was recorded for the first time in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in July 1917, although his service unit was not noted. Later in 1917 Alfred was transferred to the Grenadier Guards and continued to be recorded with the Guards through to the end of the War.
In the Absent Voter Records for Abbots Langley for Autumn 1918 Alfred was listed with the 4th Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, and gave his address at Railway Terrace, Abbots Langley.
Despite being closely associated with Kings Langley throughout his early life Alfred had probably moved to Railway Terrace, Abbots Langley around the time of his service in the War. He was remembered on the Abbots Langley Roll of Honour, and was listed in the Abbots Langley Absent Voter Records. Before their marriage, his wife Annie Homans, lived with her family at Railway Terrace, Abbots Langley and her brother, Arthur served with the Loyal North Lancashire’s during the War, was recorded in the Abbots Langley lists and was awarded the Military Medal in August 1918.
Alfred Walker survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
